Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocadae
Invalid subtaxa: Monachus (Pristiphoca) nysti Van Beneden 1859 [nomen dubium], Palaeophoca nystii Van Beneden 1859 [nomen dubium], Paleophoca nystii Van Beneden 1859 [nomen dubium], Platyphoca nystii Van Beneden 1859 [nomen dubium]
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
Parent taxon: Amphibiae according to J. E. Gray 1821
See also Adam 2004, Allen 1880, Ameghino 1889, Berta 1991, Berta 1994, Berta 1994, Berta 2002, Berta 2017, Berta 2018, Berta et al. 2015, Berta et al. 1989, Boessenecker and Churchill 2015, Boessenecker and Churchill 2016, Bonaparte 1849, Bonaparte 1850, Burns and Fay 1970, Canto et al. 2010, Carroll 1988, Cope 1889, Cozzuol 2001, Dal Piaz 1929, Davis et al. 2004, Deméré et al. 2003, Dewaele and de Muizon 2024, Dewaele and Lambert 2018, Diedrich 2011, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gill 1866, Ginsburg and Janvier 1971, Ginsburg and Janvier 1999, Gray 1825, Gray 1871, Hafed et al. 2021, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hendey 1972, Hendey 1974, Jaekel 1911, Kazár 2002, Kellogg 1922, Kienle and Berta 2019, Koretsky 2001, Koretsky and Domning 2014, Koretsky and Grigorescu 2002, Koretsky et al. 2015, Koretsky and Rahmat 2013, Koretsky et al. 2014, Koretsky and Ray 2008, Koretsky et al. 2012, Kovacs and Lavigne 1986, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Ling and Bryden 1992, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1982, Nowak 1991, Rahmat and Koretsky 2016, Rahmat and Koretsky 2018, Ray 1976, Rice 1998, Rice 2002, Rice 2009, Riedman 1990, Rule and Park 2024, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Scott 1873, Sherman 1952, Stirling 1971, Tedford 1976, Thomas et al. 1982, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Turner 1912, Uhen et al. 2008, Valenzuela-Toro et al. 2013, Valenzuela-Toro et al. 2015, Valenzuela-Toro et al. 2024, Valenzuela-Toro et al. 2016, Van Beneden 1859, Vanden Broeck 1874, Vidal 1991, Weber 1928, Wilson and Reeder 2005 and Zittel 1925
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (11: Newfoundland, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon collections), Greenland (8)
• Pliocene of Belgium (4), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene of the Netherlands (1)
Total: 25 collections each including a single occurrence